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You guys with your fabulous Winterthurs and Taras have the lux. Jealous! I got to manage it all on a balcony, 4 window boxes, and some reserve in the common courtyard!

I went summer annual shopping for the window boxes and bought dozens of navy blue petunias. It was 8 pm at the garden center and the petunias were putting out a heavenly scent. I was listening to the groovy new analog Daft Punk. I hear the fushia can smell, but not the one's I found.

i've never worked with so much blue before. I'm going to mix in cascading geraniums in bright true red, and zonal geraniums in fuschia.

I bought impatiens in candycane red/white stripes, and we don't have the blight here, so I might mix them in as well. But they look like a tall growing variety so I fear they could overwhelm the blue petunias, so I dunno.

Id like to get some mornyglory at all the windows, and moonflowers on the balcony.

I have new climbing white perfumed roses and two, 2-meter banana trees that did well over the winder inside. A Washigton silvery palm, and a new palm not sure what it is, a sort of tree palm, feathery but no thorns.

Sounds like you are using every available square foot on your balcony!Love the idea of banana trees and palms. TropiCAL! How bout a pic sometime?

Nancy please. you've got it good. We are floating frogs and turds down here. 11 inches so far. My power was out for few hours, and when I got out to go to my fave Chinese food place the bridge was flooded over!! Pure hell down here.

and when I got out to go to my fave Chinese food place the bridge was flooded over!! Pure hell down here.

Heaven forbid you not be able to go to Wok This Way twice in one week, seeing as how you were just there on Wednesday (on a late-night snack-meal no less, not even dinner). Did you order Jumbo Orange Beef-for-two again?

Nancy please. you've got it good. We are floating frogs and turds down here. 11 inches so far. My power was out for few hours, and when I got out to go to my fave Chinese food place the bridge was flooded over!! Pure hell down here.

I got 11 inches and im not happy at all about it

boo hoo.if you are complaining about 11" and not being happy...ta-dum-dum (vaudeville drum beat)

Heaven forbid you not be able to go to Wok This Way twice in one week, seeing as how you were just there on Wednesday (on a late-night snack-meal no less, not even dinner). Did you order Jumbo Orange Beef-for-two again?

just wondered if you might be able to tell me when Wumpelina had her last bowel movement. (never mind)

Some weather person I follow on facebook said that 1967 was the last time the northeast was as cold as it is now. While Mitchell is complaining nothing is like northwest Pennsylvania where tonight they're having a second night of freeze warnings spanning over a dozen counties. For some reason it's colder there than northern Maine.

Wumpy,Saw that 2 women in SA died in the flooding! Also evacuations on the south side of the city.A city bus was swept off of the street and about 130 people needed to be rescued.Sounds like a mess.(Hartford Courant article)

Some weather person I follow on facebook said that 1967 was the last time the northeast was as cold as it is now. While Mitchell is complaining nothing is like northwest Pennsylvania where tonight they're having a second night of freeze warnings spanning over a dozen counties. For some reason it's colder there than northern Maine.

frost advisory tonight in NW CT. (although the local weather guy says it might hit most of the state other than the shoreline)just came in from covering my tomatoes, basil, and cukes. what strange weather.I babied those tomatoes from seed since early March.Not gonna let mama N. give them hypothermia!

PS- forecast by the end of this week is for highs in the 90's! (maybe even three in a row which officially counts as a "heat wave" here.(Wumpy is LHAO now. .)

Wumpy,Saw that 2 women in SA died in the flooding! Also evacuations on the south side of the city.A city bus was swept off of the street and about 130 people needed to be rescued.Sounds like a mess.(Hartford Courant article)

Yes it got pretty bad here. But this is South Texas and when life gives us lemons....we grab the fishin pole.

Really strange weather here in Scotland!Snow in the last few days right up north.....around Inverness and Aberdeenshire....bright sunshine here in the lowlands and 19c....believe you me thats warm for here!!!!!My mum headed up north today.....with clothing for sunshine/snow etc...LOL!!!!!!!North Wales had a mini earhquake tremor this morning....just 3.8 on the Richter scaleBritchickx

Well after weeks of cold and mostly grey, and no spring, the warm sun shone yesterday, and my glorious pansies, living on borrowed time, well, clumps of them got that wilt that just waits for this sun. Its a quick sad death. The small violas are doing fine, however. Best year ever. I'm late to put in the summer flowers but will do so this weekend.

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ďFrom each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needĒ 1875 K Marx

Mitchylinapoo, Your house looks like it belongs on the cover of Home and Garden. And yes I hate you for it, cause I cant grow diddly-sqaut.

-Will

Will,Thanks.Your wise ass compliments mean more than you know because you know how much my efforts mean to me.All of my work over the years has been my way of keeping myself balanced.Hope to continue as long as possible.

Will,Thanks.Your wise ass compliments mean more than you know because you know how much my efforts mean to me.All of my work over the years has been my way of keeping myself balanced.Hope to continue as long as possible.

m.

ps- Mitchylinapoo? LMAO!

More beautiful pix. I have gone overboard doing things around the house. Ever since my dx, we have redone just about every part of the house-- inside and out. Before, I just didn't care that much. Plus, we didn't have the money then. It gives me things to accomplish. It takes my mind off negative thoughts. I should buy stock in Lowes. We are there almost every day. It is my favorite store. It is very therapeutic. If I didn't have something to do everyday, I would probably just sit inside watching TV. I like that my DVR is full of shows I haven't gotten time to watch yet. I also feel it is an investment. Everything we do will help sell the house, when that time comes. And, I hope I'm helping my very low Vitamin D levels. I got burned on my head, though. I wasn't out very long, so I didn't feel I needed to wear a baseball cap. Other than that, I'm starting to get some good color.

It gives me things to accomplish. It takes my mind off negative thoughts. It is very therapeutic. If I didn't have something to do everyday, I would probably just sit inside watching TV. I like that my DVR is full of shows I haven't gotten time to watch yet.

That's absolutely beautiful mitchypoo. I have absolutely no abilities when it comes to non vegetable gardening. I once thought I was being productive and helping with the yard work. I was banished from the weed eater as I thought I was ridding the yard of weeds which turned out to be some sort of exotic grass. For me, if it doesn't have flowers on it, it's an unwanted weed.

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Complacency is the enemy. Challenge yourself daily for maximum return on investment.

It is a BIG day in town today!The town is celebrating the 100th year since the East Haddam swing bridge opened and the 50th anniversary of the Goodspeed Opera House opened as a theater.

The bridge is a "draw bridge" the swings open instead of lifting open. A span of over 400 feet opens on a pivot point.The entire left side with the peak in the pic below is what rotates to allow water traffic to pass.The celebration was marked with the local drum and fife corps boys along with a procession of about 40 antique cars.There was a crowd of about 400 people on our side of the bridge

After the parade ended I took an "official" tour of the Goodspeed after living here for more than 35 years. Built in 1876, it fell into disrepair by the 1940's.The state Department of Transportation took over the building and actually used it to park huge trucks where the current front doors are now. (they were big ugly garage doors)The building was to be demolished by the late 1950's.Many contributions saved it and it opened as the Goodspeed Opera House in 1963.They produce 3 musicals per year (no operas) and 19 of them have gone to Broadway over the years."Annie" was their most well known hit. (so you can blame it on us if you wish .)

Entrance and stairway to the 398 seat theater.(they didn't allow photos in the theater. .)

River side. It is 6 stories tall.

Tents were set up for dance lessons, costume try-on photo ops, a sing along, and hat decorating for the kids.

And the Gelston House Restaurant is next door overlooking the river.They were giving out free hot dogs all day.

What a thrilling day. This is about as exciting as it gets here folks.

It is beautiful and one of Connecticut's prime tourist destinations.The shows are often pretty hokey but very professional none the less.The stage is the smallest in the country for a musical theater.Something like 21'X29'! They also have the largest costume collection in the country other than Lincoln Center.I'm not a huge fan of musical theater but every once in awhile it's fun.

Early bounty. So far picked about 8 times more snow peas than shows in the pics!!Had to blanche and freeze most of them. Amazing what $1.00 packet of seeds will produce.Yum!

Just 2 short rows of peas planted. One row is on the right in this pic.On the left is the garlic minus the scapes. Tomatoes behind the peas and corn behind the tomatoes are a bit slow due to cooler and wetter weather.It's starting to heat up so I have hope yet.